Lots of bizarre things - that whole sequence of events is truly bizarre
Let’s hope there’s NOT a repeat.
I hope schools are locked AND guarded lest something happens again.
“I hope schools are locked AND guarded lest something happens again.”
According to organizational theory any large organization can only do one thing well. A school, for example, can either teach or it can maintain security. Now, perhaps both things could be done if the security was done by some other agency. To give an example of why a school might not be able to provide security...it would be a budget item. The budget items would be divided along the lines of the schools “one” priority. Thus, any guard would be a low priority budget item. They’d therefore hire a retired officer rather than a top rated, lean, mean fighting machine. The school resource officer’s I’ve seen were arthritic, slow movers.
I think one answer is to do away with the present education system as it was designed for the industrial revolution. Its goals were to teach farm laborers to sit at a workstation and only get up when a bell war rung giving them permission. With computers and the internet schools, when actual classrooms were required, should be in individual neighborhoods, like they were before mass bussing. Hundreds of much smaller buildings would, paradoxically, be easier to police and secure using computers and the internet.
The schools near me are massive structures requiring several minutes to cross even at a running pace. They are, according to a buddy who worked at one, covered with cameras.
Another thing that would help is training and arming the teachers. The one thing that virtually guarantees a mass shooting is a sign reading, “No firearms allowed.” The sign should istead read, “Staff is armed.”
?Let’s hope there’s NOT a repeat.?
Maybe not until it is politically required.